Pierre Choumoff

14 tirages argentiques d'époque. Chacun titré et 4 tirages signés à l'encre noire par le photographe. 13 tirages avec le tampon copyright du photographe et 2 tirages avec tampon du photographe au verso. 4 tirages sont monogrammés P Ch et annotés respectivement N 3, N 5, N 10, et N 11 à l'encre noire au verso.

Christie's New York, 19th and 20th Century Photographs, 8 April 1993, lot 86
Collection Gerd Sander
Phillips New York, Collection of Corbeau et Renard assembled by Gerd Sander, 9 April 2008, lot 246
collection particulière européenne

Fondation Corbeau et Renard (éd.), La trajectoire du regard. Une collection de Photographies du XXe siècle, Cologne, Schaden, 2006, ill. p. 123;
Serge Choumoff, Un parisien russe: photographies de Pierre Choumoff, Moscou, Roussky Pout, 2000, ill. p. 45.

Generally in very good condition. The photographs are executed on different papers, all of them with a matte surface. The group portrait photographs are on thin, slightly yellow paper with light fading along the edges. The sculpture prints are on stronger papers with dark brown to slightly purple tonalities.
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